Apr 14, 2003 - Sale 1968

Sale 1968 - Lot 293

Price Realized: $ 1,725
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
PANCOAST, JOSEPH. A Treatise on Operative Surgery . . . Third Edition, revised and enlarged. 66 (of 80) hand-colored lithographed plates; lacks plates 15, 27, 56, 59, and 62-71. 4to, original cloth, recased, spine ends damaged, front joint restored, cover corners worn through; scattered foxing in text, several plates lightly offset, the rest clean. Philadelphia: A. Hart, late Carey and Hart, [1852]

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" . . . among its important contributions was the first extensive section on plastic surgery in an American medical textbook"--Garrison-Morton 5598 (1844 original edition). Reese 79 ("one of the most impressive color plates of its era").